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“Colostethus” Ruthveni Group (Anura: Dendrobatidae) and Comments on the Distribution in the Sierra Nevada De Santa Marta, Colombia SALAMANDRA 55(1) 27–38 15Acoustic February repertory 2019 ofISSN “Colostethus 0036–3375” ruthveni group Acoustic repertory of the “Colostethus” ruthveni group (Anura: Dendrobatidae) and comments on the distribution in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia Juan David Jiménez-Bolaño1, Andrés Camilo Montes-Correa1, Freddy Polo-Córdoba1, Katherin Linares-Vargas1, Danilo Vergara-Gil2, Cesar L. Barrio-Amorós3 & Claudia Koch4 1) Grupo de Investigación en Manejo y Conservación de Fauna, Flora y Ecosistemas Estratégicos Neotropicales (MIKU), Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia 2) Programa de Maestría en Ecología Acuática, Universidad de Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela 3) Doc Frog Expeditions, San José, Costa Rica 4) Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany Corresponding author: Claudia Koch, e-mail: [email protected] Manuscript received: 3 July 2018 Accepted: 26 October 2018 by Stefan Lötters Abstract. The “Colostethus” ruthveni group represents an endemic dendrobatid lineage in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Mar- ta (SNSM), an isolated massif in northeastern Colombia. This group has a complex taxonomic history and comprises the nominal species, from the northern and northwestern sector of the SNSM and an undescribed morph provisionally named as “Colostethus” sp. ruthveni-like, from the southeastern sector of this mountain massif. Herein, we describe the advertise- ment calls of members of the “C.” ruthveni group from several basins in the northern, northwestern, and southeastern sec- tors of the SNSM, and their geographic variation. In addition, we describe the courtship calls of the northwestern popula- tions and provide comments on the distribution of the members of the group. The advertisement call of the C.“ ” ruthveni group consists of a trill with a long series of notes. All advertisement call traits show statistical differences among the as- sessed basins. The principal component analysis revealed overlap in call traits of individuals from the northwestern sec- tor of the SNSM (“C.” ruthveni sensu stricto), while the populations of the southeastern sector (“C.” sp. ruthveni-like) and northern sector (“C.” cf. ruthveni) varied from these calls with respect to the dominant frequency and rate of notes per second, respectively. Acoustic divergence of advertisement calls of “C.” ruthveni sensu stricto and “C.” sp ruthveni-like is congruent with morphological and molecular evidence. Courtship call of “C.” ruthveni sensu stricto is a short partially fused pulsed squeak, followed by the usual advertisement call. This courtship call differs drastically in structure from the advertisement call, showing once again the complexity of the acoustic repertory of dendrobatoid frogs. Key words. Acoustic divergence, advertisement call, Colombian Caribbean, courtship call, geographic variation. Introduction century, with the description of the back-riding tadpoles (Ruthven & Gaige 1915) and some aspects of the natural The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (SNSM) is an isolated history (Ruthven 1922) of “C.” ruthveni in the northern mountain massif in northeastern Colombia, in the de- and northwestern sectors of the SNSM, under the identity partments of Magdalena, Cesar and La Guajira. Edaphic of Hyloxalus subpunctatus (Cope, 1899). and climatic conditions of this mountain system promote The formal description of Colostethus“ ” ruthveni by speciation processes, resulting in an eco-geographic area Kap lan (1997) was based on specimens mainly collected with high endemicity (Carbonó & Lozano-Contreras in the northwestern sector of the SNSM (type locality: que- 1997, Lynch et al. 1997). According to Armesto & Señaris brada Viernes Santo, Santa Marta, Magdalena department) (2017), the SNSM has the highest proportion of endemic in the early 20th century and housed in the Museum of anurans within the northern Andes. One of these endemic Zoology of the Michigan University (UMMZ). Later, some lineages is the “Colostethus” ruthveni group, composed of contributions to the distribution (González-Maya et al. the homonym species (Kaplan, 1997) and at least one un- 2011, Granda-Rodríguez et al. 2014) and feeding ecology described morph (Lynch et al. 1997, Grant et al. 2017). (Blanco-Torres et al. 2014) of “C.” ruthveni were pub- The complex history of this group started in the early 20th lished. Rueda-Almonacid et al. (2008) provided a brief © 2019 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde e.V. (DGHT), Mannheim, Germany Available at http://www.salamandra-journal.com 27 Juan David Jiménez-Bolaño et al. morphological description of an undescribed dendro- from Los Besotes corresponds to an undescribed species, batoid species, temporarily named “Allobates sp.” from provisionally naming it “Colostethus” sp. ruthveni-like. a locality in the southeastern foothills of the SNSM (Los The importance of acoustic signals in intraspecific social Besotes Eco-park, Valledupar, Cesar department). In con- functions of anurans has been highlighted as being poten- trast, Anganoy-Criollo (2012, therein see Appendix A) tially useful for species recognition and taxonomic deci- and Granda-Rodríguez et al. (2014) referred to speci- sion making (Padial et al. 2009, Forti et al. 2017, Köhler mens from another locality in the southeastern sector of et al. 2017). In allopatric speciation scenarios, call differ- SNSM (Nabusímake, Valledupar, 22.7 km in straight line of ences are tricky to interpret as they do not necessarily in- Los Besotes) as “C.” ruthveni. This situation generated un- dicate specific distinctness, because separated populations certainty about the taxonomic status of the populations of of the same species can adapt to different environmental the southern region of the SNSM. conditions by modifying their vocalizations (Bernal et In a recent phylogenetic reconstruction of the Dendro- al. 2005, Köhler et al. 2017). Nevertheless, we here start batoidea, Grant et al. (2017), proposed that the “Colo­ from the initial assumption that interspecific variation in stethus” ruthveni group is not related with the “coloste- bioacoustic characters exceeds intraspecific variation (cf. thines” (or any other group of dendrobatoid frogs with Köhler et al. 2017). To elucidate the taxonomic status and cryptic coloration), but constitutes an undescribed genus the delimitation of species within the “C.” ruthveni group, closely related to toothless dendrobatines (tribe Dendro- this research was conducted in five hydrographic basins batini sensu Grant et al. 2017). The authors agreed with of the SNSM with the objectives (1) to describe the adver- Rueda-Almonacid et al. (2008) in that the population tisement call and the geographic variation of call traits of Figure 1. Referred localities with presence of members of “Colostethus” ruthveni group in the SNSM (departments of Cesar, La Guajira and Magdalena, Colombia). Toribio basin (violet): 1. Viernes Santo creek (type locality), 2. La Tagua Village, 3. Hacienda El Aserrío, 4. Hacienda El Recuerdo; Gaira basin (green): 5. Arimaca, 6. El Berro creek, 7. Pozo Azul, 8. Hacienda La Victoria, 9. El Campano Village; Los Rodríguez basin (blue): 10. Las Tinajas Village; Ancho basin (red):11. Tugueca Village, 12. Wimangaga Reserve, 13. San Miguel Village; Cesar basin (yellowish): 14. Atanquez Village, 15. Los Besotes Eco-park, 16. Donachuí Village, 17. Nabusímake Village, 18. Pueblo Bello Village, 19. Don Diego Village. 28 Acoustic repertory of “Colostethus” ruthveni group Table 1. Localities where calls of the members of the “Colostethus” ruthveni group were recorded. *Information on the courtship call in parenthesis. Elevation N N Locality Geographic coordinates (Datum WGS84) Hour Temperature (°C) (m a.s.l.) males calls Gaira river basin El Campano Village 11°6’41.41”N, 74°5’36.24”W 1450 1 2 11:15–11:20 28.3 Hacienda La Victoria 11°7’44.10”N, 74°5’32.40”W 900 3 8 08:40–09:00 24.7 Pozo Azul 11°7’58.72”N, 74°6’07.58”W 836 2 12 09:30–09:50 25.1 Arimaca* 11°7’33.56”N, 74°7’08.93”W 723 3 (1) 12 (4) 15:15–15:30 24.6 El Berro creek 11°8’18.33”N, 74°7’00.88”W 620 2 12 14:45–15:00 26.5 Toribio river basin La Tagua Village 11°4’55.00”N, 74°2’22.70”W 1500 3 11 08:30–08:40 23.9 Hacienda El Aserrío 11°4’56.80”N, 74°6’41.90”W 1400 4 10 15:40–15:50 26.5 Hacienda El Recuerdo 11°5’14.00”N, 74°2’53.00”W 1200 1 5 09:20–09:30 25.6 Los Rodríguez creek basin Las Tinajas Village 11°17’03,80’’N, 74°4’00,20”W 735 5 11 10:15–10:30 28.2 Ancho river basin Wimangaga Reserve 11°8’18.42”N, 73°32’45.94”W 700 2 11 09:00–09:15 25.6 Tugueca Village 11°8’49.11”N, 73°30’32.68”W 450 1 12 10:20–10:30 29.3 Cesar river Basin Donachuí Village 10°42’47.60”N, 73°27’20.64”W 1436 3 6 16:40–16:50 27.2 the members of the “C.” ruthveni group, (2) to evaluate the Call collection and analyses potential acoustic divergence between “C.” ruthveni from the northern and northwestern sector of the SNSM and Calls of 30 males with a duration of in total 40 min. were “C.” sp. ruthveni-like, (3) to provide a description of the recorded with a Tascam DR05 recorder during seven field courtship call from populations of the northwestern sector trips between December 2014 and April 2017; recordings of SNSM, and (4) to add information on the distribution of were made at 08:00–12:00 h and 15:00–17:00 h, at an ap- the group members. proximate distance of 50 cm from the calling male (Ta- ble 1). Air temperature was measured with a digital ther- mo-hygrometer Extech RH210. Voucher specimens were Materials and methods not collected and each male at each site was only recorded Study area once to avoid pseudoreplication.
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